The more I think I know…

Followers of this blog are well aware of my aversion to reviewing fiction. Doesn’t mean I don’t like a good novel now and then (emphasis on “good”), just that I don’t feel qualified to write about it it because I find critiquing it subjective.

But I never realized how many novels I never heard of before receiving Bobby Plapinger’s latest list of baseball fiction he has up for sale.

While I have enjoyed several of the titles from the list — offered below as a PDF file — there are a number I’ll have to pick up at some point.

NEW!
Free 501 checklist available (Excel/spreadhseet format). Makes it fun to check off which books you've read and handy to bring to the bookstore or library to get what you still want to read. Send your request via email to ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf (@)gmail(dot)com.

Ron by Roth

In my "day job," I'm the features and sports editor for a weekly New Jersey newspaper, where I host another blog. Busy, busy, busy.

I did a profile piece on the award-winning cartoonist Arnold Roth and he was nice enough to "immortalize" me.